Still working on the mechanicals

I thought that installing two cold air returns would be easy, but so far, not so.

Here is the first one, which will pull in cold air from the playroom. I've put sheetmetal up between the studs for the air cavity once the sheet rock is up. This might be a waste as I am thinking of sheet rocking the inside of the mechanical room (to help keep the noise of the furnace from the rest of the rooms). I did not quite have enough sheet metal to make it all the way up to the cold air return, and the return was not flush against the wall studs. See below (click to expand).



Note the gap at the top


Nothing some sheet metal and aviation shears cannot solve.



New piece firmly in place.


Will need some foil tape to seal it all up.


One more cold air return to figure out - over the weekend.

Here is the UTS mounted next to the breaker box. It's not completely installed yet, as the electician is coming back this weekend to put in new breakers and to run the generator plug-in box to the outside of the house.


I've got 60 lbs of low-voltage wiring arriving on Monday. Probably will take a week to install of the wiring and the conduit. After that the new insulation goes in the walls and ceiling, and I believe after that, we'll be ready for sheetrock.